S3E5: “Attention to Details” with Tom Cartwright from the RGV Welcome Committee

The Jesuit Border Podcast

We are excited to welcome Tom Cartwright, an advocate and activist who volunteers with the RGV Welcome Committee and Witness at the Border. Tom retired after nearly forty years working for JP Morgan, but was inspired by a visit to a refugee camp in Greece to put his corporate skills to use on behalf of migrants. Among other things, he tracks the Department of Homeland Security flights for deportation, expulsion, or “lateral flights” that move migrants from one part of the border to another. We share from our recent experience encountering migrants who had crossed the border near El Paso, but then were flown a thousand miles away to Brownsville to be processed. What we thought was going to be the start of our weekend, turned into a frantic night of surveying about seventy migrants who were left to sleep on the street outside the local bus station. We end the episode pitching an Ignatian Camino to Spain for the summer of…2024? Who’s interested??